Eve's apple: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Eve's apple in English is the name of a plant defined with Tabernaemontana dichotoma in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ervatamia polyneura King & Gamble (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem (1935)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1985)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1935)
· Bot. Reg. (1823)
· Edwards’s Botanical Register
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